The Report, Episode 15: Mueller's Report

Published: Nov. 10, 2019, 8 p.m.

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It Friday, March 22, 2019. It\\u2019s been nearly two years since Robert Mueller was first appointed Special Counsel. Now, he\\u2019s ready to submit a final report to the Attorney General. He has uncovered a sprawling and systematic effort by Russia to interfere in the 2016 election. And he\\u2019s developed a mountain of evidence about the president\\u2019s efforts to obstruct his investigation, things like witness tampering, ordering the creation of false records, and trying to fire Mueller himself.

But Mueller\\u2019s got a problem: a Department of Justice memo says he can\\u2019t indict a sitting president. So what is he supposed to do with all this evidence? Mueller decides to just lay it all in the report, all 448 pages of it. It\\u2019ll be someone else\\u2019s problem to decide what to do about it: maybe a future prosecutor, maybe Congress, maybe the America electorate. That isn\\u2019t really Mueller\\u2019s concern. He\\u2019s done what he was asked to do. Now his report can speak for itself.

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